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Thursday, March 31, 2011

A Good Screw Up Keeps You Humble

Sometimes you have to laugh, call yourself an idiot and then put on your big girl panties and fix your mistake. This is my peace sign quilt...well, almost. Notice something missing...we'll I didn't and neither did all the people who read this pattern for me. Nice to know at least I wasn't alone. Too bad the commenter who pointed out my mistake was anonymous. I'd like to thank her. She's got a great eye for seeing what's really there, or not there in this case! Yup, the bottom bar of the peace sign is missing. Yeah, I have to redo the pattern. Shouldn't be hard, just embarrassing.Good thing is I still love the quilt and it'll make me smile every time I use it.So off to eat my crow and fix my mistake. What colors should I use for the next one?Too bad it's not April 1....I missed being an April Fool by only one day. I guess I only get to be a regular everyday fool.

I think I like it better this way. I had to google peace signs to even figure out what you were talking about was missing. I think I would keep it. Adding that bottom bar might make it too busy and besides it's really about your own interpretation anyway, right? I love it the way it is!

As a math teacher, I think it would be a great math problem for students: how many squares have to shift to include the middle leg of the peace sign? How can you keep the proportions the same but scale it larger?

It's a great quilt. If it were my quilt (and I wish it were), I would consider changing the quilting by making it straight line quilting where the bar should be and say "I meant to do that!" Quilting is so forgiving : )

I love it...in all it's flawed glory. if it was my quilt and my mistake, I would name it Humble and cherish it as a reminder of me....flawed in all my glory!! Besides it's about time the peace symbol gets a remodel, lol.

I love your peace sign quilt!!! I thought you left that bottom part out on purpose. I made a peace sign quilt last year for a school auction and I deliberated for a while on whether to include the bottom bar or not and drew it out both ways before deciding. I have seen peace signs with and without so if I were you I would keep it as is. I love the quilting lines on this quilt. It must have taken you forever...well, it would have taken me forever :-)

The quilt is great Jacquie! I think it happens quite a bit, actually....a few years ago some students at Shawnee Mission East HS printed off what they thought were peace symbols onto tee shirts....turns out the symbols looked just like yours! The press loved it!

I love your mess-up. Personally, I've been screwing stuff up for over 40 years and trying to fix my mistakes, or at least learning from them. My sister and I once made blouses out of some really mod fabric with cool circles and dots. Guess where the circles ended up? Unwearable.

Too funny. I'm a teacher and there was a peace sign that one class of kids had made in our front hallway at school. Every time I'd pass it, I'd think something was not quite right ~ but I couldn't figure it out. Then one day a music teacher from another school visited and said, "You guys forgot something in that peace sign!" Same thing! And I lived through the peace movement. So don't feel badly!!!!!

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